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Twin Peaks has about 60 TVs, cold beer and its own scantily clad waitresses, albeit with a different theme.

The restaurant is decorated like a mountain lodge. Mounted deer heads are hung from the wall, chairs are clustered around a fireplace past the tables and bar, and the waitresses wear flannel crop tops.

The Houma restaurant is the state’s second Twin Peaks. There’s also one in Baton Rouge.

“We target places where there are a lot of sports-loving, beer-drinking men,” spokeswoman Katie Allen said. “There are real men in Houma.”

Twin Peaks and Hooters may be able to co-exist in the city, but in the midst of Twin Peaks’ opening month — it began accepting dinner customers May 6 and started serving lunch Monday — there’s some tension between the two.

“Hooters is an old concept that hasn’t evolved,” said Kyle Crochet, Twin Peaks’ director of operations. The Thibodaux native has spent 25 years in the restaurant industry, previously managing Chili’s and McAlister’s Deli franchises.

The Houma Hooters opened in March 2010 along the heavily traveled retail corridor in a building that previously housed Hollywood Video and underwent a $2 million overhaul.

The Houma restaurant, at the site of the former Ryan’s Steakhouse, hired more than 100 waitresses and hostesses, Twin Peaks’ “signature assets,” Allen said. Employees were selected after an application process that included auditions in the khaki shorts and a flannel shirt tied at the bust that its waitresses wear.

“We want to see if they fit the brand,” Allen said.

Twin Peaks is also “very protective of our girls,” she said.

“Guys and beer, they can get kind of rowdy, so we make sure to hire managers that take care of them,” she said.

Crochet said he’s only heard positive feedback about the chain that calls itself a “breastaurant.”

“There are a lot of people that look at this from the outside, and they see these young, pretty girls and sexy outfits and judge it immediately,” Crochet said. “These girls are making a living. They’re mothers, they’re daughters. They genuinely do a good job taking care of their customers, all customers — men, women and kids.”